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Canned Foods, Much Better Than Their Reputation: Issues W/ Heavy Metals, Plastics, and Nutrient Losses Revisited

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While generalizations are problematic, it is true that the average canned product is better than its reputation would suggest. As a SuppVersity -reader, you will know that frozen vegetables and fruit are much healthier than their reputation would suggest ( learn more ). In previous articles, I have even pointed out that for some foods, such as spinach, the frozen variety is superior to the "fresh" one with respect to almost all relevant nutritional aspects. Now, this raises the question: If frozen fruits and veggies are so much better than most people believe, could the same be true for canned fruits and vegetables? Looking for more ways to improve your diet? Increase your potassium (K) intake! Potassium vs. Diet-Inducded Insulin Resis. In the Lime Light: The Ill Effects of Low K Intakes Bad News: Most Americans are Sign. K Deficient Lean, Healthy ... Correlates of High Hair Potassium Eating a High Protein Diet? Better Watch K! Potassium Bicarbonat...

Grind, Blend, Microwave - How Does the Way You Process Them Affect the Health-Benefits of Veggies and Fruits

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Carrots and blueberries - superfoods you cannot ruin by grinding, blending and even the falsely depreciated use of the microwave oven. Cooking / Food-Processing Done Right: 5 Things to Remember to Make the Most of the Antioxidant Prowess of Your Foods Cooking or the preparation of food (food processing at home) is something I would love to address more often. Unfortunately, studies such as Boyan­ Gao's recently published paper in "Food Science & Nutrition" are truly rare. In said paper, the Chinese scientists followed up on recent studies that indicate that different food preparation methods could significantly change the chemical profiles and bioactivities including the antioxidant and real-world anti-inflammatory activity of (super-)foods. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity All About Almonds and Their Health Effects Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Egg-Ology, Today: Why Eggs are Awesome Walnut...

Healthy Fish Swims in the Sea, not the Pan | 7% Increased Type II Diabetes Risk per Add. Serving/Wk of Fried Fish

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Within the fried fish category the study did unfortunately not distinguish between regularly fried (left) and breaded or otherwise crumbed fried fish. While this may be simply because they simply didn't have the data, it clearly reduces the practical value of the study. Sometimes, eating healthy can be more difficult than you'd think. Let's take your two weekly servings of fish as an example. With fish, there are the issues with nasty heavy metals and plastics in wild-caught and the increased omega-6 fatty acids in farmed fish that I've addressed at length in my 2013 and 2014 articles "Making the Right Fish Choices: Fatty Acid Contents of 33 Different Fish Species" ( read it ) and "Farmed vs. Wild-Caught: Pollutants and A Low Omega-3/6 Ratio" ( read it ). Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Whether or not you will see the full, if any health benefit you certainly will have heard of, will not just depend on making the right fish , but also...

All About Almonds: Effect of Processing on Energy, Macro-, Micro- & Phytonutrient Content, Quality + (Bio-)Availability

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I guess you won't be surprised to hear about advantages of raw almonds, but what about the skin...? In view of the repeatedly resurfacing hype around almonds, I probably don't have to tell you that the oval nutlike seed (kernel) of the almond tree, which grows in a woody shell is another of the infamous superfoods. Now, this alone wouldn't be reason enough for almonds to make it into the SuppVersity   News , again (!); rather than hype, it's their phytochemicals and nutrient content of which several lines of experimental and epidemiological research suggest that they have positive health benefits in relation to heart disease, diabetes and obesity . What should be obvious, though, is that these benefits will be observed only if these precious phyto- and micronutrients are (a) retained upon processing / mastication and (b) digested and absorbed during the digestion process. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey...
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